The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) revealed last Friday a document on the follow-up it has given the Chapitos cartel over the past year and a half, particularly in fentanyl production and trafficking operations.
The revelation minimized the meeting that five Mexican state secretaries had with the attorney general and various second-level officials of the administration in Washington 24 hours earlier. Biden.
“I think that the Government of Mexico already knew for months that this pressure (from the United States) was going to come to capture and reduce the operating capacity of the children of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, in that sense there was no surprise,” says Gerardo Rodríguez, director of the International Relations course at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla. “The dialogue with the DEA has been reactivated for several months.”
On several occasions, President López Obrador denied that fentanyl was produced in Mexico, even on Thursday in Washington, the Secretary of Security Rosa Isela Rodríguez also denied it. Earlier, on March 13, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Marcelo EbrardHe also denied it. However, the DEA revealed otherwise.
On this subject, Gerardo Rodríguez comments: “It seems to me that the president was not precise here in saying that indeed the chemical percussors that are transformed into fentanyl pills come from China.”
Regarding the immediate future in terms of security between Mexico and the United States, the academic points out: “The United States will not cease to pressure Mexico with the issue of fentanyl and I am sure that it will be a topic of debate before next year’s elections in the United States; It will be one of the most complex stages”.
For her part, Aribel Contreras, an academic at the Universidad Iberoamericana and a specialist in relations with the United States, agrees that this issue “will have an impact between Republicans and Democrats in light of the presidential elections.”
On security cooperation between the United States and Mexico, the academic comments that “it will not be affected, it will have to be intensified; The mechanisms is an architecture that has existed for years and will have to be much more solid to fight corruption, Achilles heel in Mexico.”
Armor
Regarding the issue of the revelations of documents leaked in the United States on the friction between the Mexican Defense and Navy secretariats, President López Obrador indicated that he will shield the information by reiterating that these institutions are targets of espionage by the United States.
“We are going to take care of the information from the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Defense because we are being the object of espionage by the Pentagon,” said the president during his usual press conference, without detailing the measures that will be adopted.
The ruler assured this Tuesday that leaks that, according to him, are made by the anti-drug agency (DEA) to Mexican media critical of the government are added to this. However, he dismissed a diplomatic complaint.
According to classified documents cited by The Washington Post, the US authorities evaluated the implications of a Mexican law that orders the Army to monitor and protect the country’s airspace.
(With information from AFP)
